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Hindoo Ghat on the Ganges below Benares   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Thomas Sutherland  (1785–1838)  wikidata:Q18508689
 
Description English printmaker and engraver
Date of birth/death 1785 Edit this at Wikidata 1838 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q18508689
After Charles Ramus Forrest  (1786–1827)  wikidata:Q69686100
 
Alternative names
Cha. Forrest,; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest; C. R. Forrest
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 1786 Edit this at Wikidata 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Windsor Chatham
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q69686100
Title
Hindoo Ghat on the Ganges below Benares
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
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From: Lt. Col. C. R. Forrest, from A Picturesque Tour Along the River Ganges and Jumna in India (London: R. Ackermann, 1824)

Hindoo Ghaut on the Ganges below Benares

This is plate 12 from Charles Ramus Forrest's 'A Picturesque tour along the rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India'. Forrest was an East India Company official who made excursions along the rivers, producing drawings "attentively copied from nature, and in many instances coloured on the spot, ... while the magic effects of the scenes represented were still impressed on [his] mental vision".

In December 1807, Forrest set out on an excursion from Calcutta. On approaching Benares, he came upon this "sweet and quiet" scene. Forrest writes: "before we got sight of its venerable pile, we came unexpectedly, on a sudden turn of the road, in view of one of the ghauts so often met with on the Ganges, and the small pagoda of the village, which latter was concealed from our sight by the thick and luxuriant foliage. The large tree is a peepul, of the birkut or banian tribe, but which does not throw out those pendent shoots on which the other supports the weight of its overgrown branches."
Depicted place Varanasi
Date 1824
date QS:P571,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium lithograph
medium QS:P186,Q15123870
Dimensions height: 27.2 cm (10.7 in); width: 33.5 cm (13.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,27.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,33.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
X757(12)
Place of creation London
Credit line British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
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https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019xzz000000757u00012000.html

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